Huw Jenkins and Sue Farrand live in a medieval manor house in Snowdonia with a private platform onto the Ffestiniog Railway. It is just about to go on the market and they have made a 2 ½ minute lifestyle film to promote it.

Here is the link:

http://bit.ly/PlasyDduallt

The name of the house is Plas y Dduallt, which translates to 'The House on the Black Hillside'. The property itself would make a fascinating story. There's an awful lot of history that goes with it – here is a link to some of it : 

http://bit.ly/DdualltLloyds

The couple say "Most property films we have seen are very clinical and devoid of people. What we have chosen to make is a lifestyle film, to bring the place and its possibilities to life."

Tan Y Bwlch, Blaenau Ffestiniog, LL41 - OIRO £795,000

*** VIEWINGS AVAILABLE FROM SATURDAY 22ND APRIL 2017***

Situated on the south-facing slopes of Moelwyn Bach and standing within its own gardens and grounds, Plas y Dduallt is an impressive Grade II listed Welsh Manor House dating back to the C16th. The property comprises of 6 bedrooms currently configured into a main house, with 2 reception rooms and 4 bedrooms, and an adjoining self-contained 2-bedroom wing. There are spectacular views from just about every window.

The property is approached by a private tarmac drive that winds up the hillside through ancient oak woodland, designated a National Nature Reserve, and mostly owned by the National Trust. Whilst the property is secluded, it is not isolated, having its own private platform onto the Ffestiniog Railway, and a choice of two pubs in the nearby village of Maentwrog.

Plas y Dduallt is of stone construction with a slate roof and most of the rooms have exposed stone walls with access to the first floor by way of spiral stone steps. There is a wealth of features which includes: large oak beams, an impressive four-poster bedroom, stone flagged floors, a minstrels' gallery in the kitchen, a cellar with arrow slits, a balcony, studded and linenfold solid oak internal doors and large inglenook fireplaces.

This is a unique property which will appeal to lovers of heritage railways, history or wildlife and walking, or for those that want a chance to live a different life.

The property sits in approx 5 acres of which 1 ¼ acres are freehold and 3 ¼ are on a 50-year lease from the National Trust. The freehold land around the buildings includes the cottage style garden, the kitchen garden, the front lawn and the walled vegetable garden. The cottage style garden has a lawn with borders of shrubs and plants and a series of 5 cascading ponds fed by a mountain stream. The kitchen garden is a sheltered seating area between the house and the old barn with herbaceous border and herbs. The extensive vegetable garden benefits from all day sunshine and produces crops of fruit and veg as well as many flowering plants; it looks like a scene from 'The Good Life'. The leasehold land includes about an acre of formal garden adjacent to the cottage style garden with lawn, trees, shrubs and a stream. There is a flat area at the top for football and basketball. The other main section of leasehold land is the hillside pasture and woodland between the house and the railway line which is currently grazed by sheep. There is a private footpath to Campbell's Platform for the exclusive use of the owners. The Platform includes the signal box built by Colonel Campbell.

http://www.walterlloydjones.co.uk/property/tan-y-bwlch-blaenau-ffestiniog-ll41/walt2-001154/2

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Huw Jenkins and Sue Farrand (the current owners) can be contacted on Tel: 01766 590272 Mobile : 07943 576275 

Walter Lloyd Jones (the vendors agent) contact is Alun Pugh at the Dolgellau office Tel: 01341 422278.

About the video

North Shore Productions commented that this production took a visit to the property to get to know the owners, property and location; time at home planning the stoyboard and schedule around the train timetable, getting flight permissions from the railway etc; 2 days on location filming; and a day editing.